Abandoned cars, faded beauty

Even Capris can’t rot that quickly...

 

Followed a nice one yesterday 2.0 laser, looking very unmolested and clean , driven by a 'lady of a certain age' . I'd like to think she'd had the car as a teenager and garaged it since - t'was a proper time capsule ...

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Noooo. Mk 3s are bloody horrible. Mk 2 1600E, please.

 

Now that’s got to make you irresistible to ladies

 

I have always loved the porsche 356 speedster - my equal love is a dino 246 gt/s
I was so close to buying a factory chesil replica back in the day before a house move spent my 'car fund'...
I had never had a classic VW engine before then but at the time it came with an Arnie Levics 1800cc lump rated at 9ohp.
One day...

 

A 356 or a Dino. ....expensive taste then!! I like the look of the Chesil. ..like you say "one day " maybe.

 

I will just leave this here

 

I'm guessing, that if you've sat in one, you're about five foot nothing & have no comprehension of ergonomics.
And if you haven't, and/or you're a bit taller, you'd be better off liking the look of something else instead.

 

Sound like it's no good for me, just like the look but not sat in one.

 

Sorry Sarah I'm with Snotts on this one. Mk3s were a bit too chavvy for me, but I find the Mk2 a bit too boxy. What I'd give to have my Mk1 1500gt back. I was my first rally car and had a Burton Blueprint engine, 2000e box and a LSD. Boy did it shift.

 

I'll just leave this here. World beater

 

Almost enough to set off me palpitations!

 

nightmares of holidays as kid sat in the back of one lucky it got written off when a reliant robin went up the back of it.
Unfortunately dad decided to buy one of these to replace it oh the shame.

 

Ghastly. He could’ve bought a Cavalier/Ascona, which had proper suspension and didn’t look like an old biscuit tin.

If anything showed that the British car industry was done for, it was the Marina.

 

My Dad had a mkI 1500 Estate with hot cams and carbs that he used to ‘rally’, when local motoring clubs called tearing around country lanes at night ‘rallying’.
He replaced that with a ‘71 mkIII 2000 GXL which we drove occasionally, which actually went really well! The Pinto engine was a peach.
My brother trashed it in a ditch.


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Proper abandoned car on my regular ride a few years back:

It’s a fair bit worse now, and so overgrown I can barely see it.


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Nice shade of brown! !!

 

You could buy a Marina in any colour, so long as it was b.eige.